Care for meaning
Care for is a phrasal verb with 3 meanings. One of them is to look after and provide for someone vulnerable through age, youth, or illness.
- Past simple
- cared for
- Past participle
- cared for
- -ing form
- caring for
What care for means
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To look after and provide for someone vulnerable through age, youth, or illness
She cares for her father at home.
2 more meanings of care for are in the Retite app, each with an example and a translation into your language.
More meanings in the appSimilar phrasal verbs
With for: call for, look for, do for, feel for, file for, go for, live for, make for, root for, think for yourself.
Common questions
What does care for mean?
It has 3 meanings. One of them is to look after and provide for someone vulnerable through age, youth, or illness. The other 2, each with an example and a translation into your language, are in the Retite app.
What is the past tense of care for?
Cared for, which is also its past participle.
Meanings and examples are written by Retite. The meanings follow Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Levels are based on the CEFR-J Wordlist and set by Retite.
